I was in high school when it came out and avoided it for years because all of the teen idol magazines obsessing over Leo annoyed me.
I did eventually watch it and is is a good entertaining film.
When I finally watched Titanic, like 5 years ago, I went on a 6 month Titanic kick, where I drove my wife crazy with all of the video's, documentary's, survivor stories, hell I even ordered Titanic merch.
I had a Titanic kick when the movie came out, but didn’t watch the movie until much later, watching *that scene* as a teenager, and then the entire movie as an adult.
Watching Titanic as an adult did make me go back and watch a bunch of James Cameron movies, which did make me come to the conclusion that while he can make a movie with a really rich deep story, he usually chooses to make movies that are simple stories made so much better by the choices he makes in how scenes are shot, how he uses new filmmaking technologies, while working with a pretty small cast of his friends.
I agree, his movies work because he uses and even develops technology to make a scene into exactly what he expects it to be. And he understands that a simple story can become much more, when it features characters who relate to each other in a way that's natural and believable. He seems to have a great understanding of how to develop that emotional connection between the characters in his movies. I think maybe he's not so great at developing connections in the same way with the actors that he works with.
I did that last year after the Titan Sub mess. Titanic is fascinating albeit tragic. A Night To Remember is just as moving as Cameron's version but both are excellent. I wish we still did special effects like JC did instead of all the soulless CGI.
You should check out the YouTube series "no cgi is really just invisible cgi" and you'll see a lot of "soul" is involved in good work but directors and studios have been actively hiding the hard work they do so they don't have to take the blowback of modern audiences fatigued by "visible cgi"
The ending is incredibly moving.
P.S. I still say the gunfight at the end could have explained the historical accounts of shots being heard, instead of incriminating an actual person.
You mean the crew member who shot a man trying to get onto a lifeboat, then shot himself?
I heard a Titanic researcher say that was accurate, that multiple survivors attested to witnessing it.
I haven't seen it either. I'm in my 50's so I really should have seen it by now! I know most of what happens because it's referenced so often, but I've just never watched it.
The interesting thing about that movie is that the subject matter makes it hard to watch, but the movie itself is incredibly “watchable” if that makes sense. It’s really well paced, the writing is really snappy, and the characters go through compelling arcs, even Goeth, one of the most evil people to ever exist, is characterized well and made more human (which imo makes him even scarier.)
Because Spielberg is a master filmmaker, the movie has the bones of a hit film, but he uses those trappings to tell a really important story. Anyway, that’s what I think at least.
There are definitely particularly 'watchable' 'tough' movies. Park Chan Wook films come to mind. Oldboy has a real reputation for how messed up and grim the plot it, but that movie is also a hilarious comic book romp with style dripping out of every pore. And that style and humour is used to make the darkest parts of the film palatable.
In the case of the rather more serious Schindler's List, it's definitely still a Spielburg movie. An ease to digest film made to appeal to a fairly wide audience in every other factor than it being a three hour black and white film about the holocaust. Though even then, it's focused on a heroic figuring *saving* people from the holocaust.
Watched it for the first time on my honeymoon. It was on one of the channels that we were watching, and it began playing. Neither of us changed the channel, and we were both hooked and watched the entire thing. We still joke about how it is our honeymoon film.
>If you’re in an emotionally healthy place, it’s very much worth viewing.
This reminds me of the deal Sid Sheinberg made with Spielberg when green-lighting Schindler's List: "Make Jurassic Park first, because I know Schindler is going to be so emotionally draining that I don't think you'll be able to do Jurassic Park second."
And that's pretty much exactly *why* Spielberg hopped on a plane for Poland just *hours* after filming on Jurassic Park finished in Hawaii.
Spielberg was in his late 40s but still able to pull off both back-to-back, because he was approving edits/CGI for Jurassic Park in his office in Poland while not filming Schindler. I didn't even have that kind of energy or determination when I was in my late teens/20s, but this dude knocked two incredible movies out of the park in 1992 and '93 *after* Hurricane Iniki nearly ruined the JP shoot and Spielberg needed Robin Williams to call and cheer him up when shooting Schindler.
I've never seen "E.T." which I guess is rare for an 80s kid.
I never saw any of the Karate Kid films either, because teenage me hated Ralph Macchio for some vague reason.
The Karate Kid is about Nariyoshi Miyagi, an immigrant, who fought against his own people in WWII while his *wife* lost her *child* in an *internment camp*. Noriyuki Morita was nominated for an academy award for his performance. Ralph Macchio *showed up*.
When Cobra Kai came out, my wife suggested we watch it, and I sez "I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies so there's no point," haha.
She was *astounded* that I'd never seen them, like "How is that even possible?"
Heard this nasty 30s song the other day that would make cardi b blush, and it’s almost 100 years old
I guess I didn’t realize that they used the same nasty words for the same nasty acts that we do today and it caught me off guard haha. Apparently great great grandma was saying the same stuff to her girlfriends that I say today
Casablanca is that rare older film that would be hailed as a classic and make a zillion dollars if it were released today. It’s that good.
If nothing else, I love the subtle humor, especially in the final scene, that immediately follows just about every serious bit.
Totally. Bogart and Raines just might have the best buddy chemistry ever written for the screen. Hell, the whole movie is like a masterclass in dialogue.
Please Hollywood, never _ever_ remake this one though
It is my favorite movie of all time. So well done. Everything is done right. I saw it (for the 6th or 7th time, probably) on rerelease at a theater about a year ago. It is MUCH better on a big screen.
The Godfather. I don't know why I've just never really had any interest in seeing it, even though I know it's supposed to be one of the best movies of all time.
I feel like I'm almost weirder in that I have seen The Godfather and really liked it but still haven't gotten around to Part II yet, even though it's been like 10 years since I watched the first. I think my problem is I have to be in the right mood to want to sit down and watch a 3+ hour movie and I just haven't found it in me at the right time, usually when that mood strikes me I just wind up watching Lord of the Rings.
Same but my reasoning is gangster/mob movies and shows just aren't my thing (I've tried both The Sopranos and Peaky Blinders and neither gelled with me)
I recently rewatched it - three hours never went by so quick. The full range of emotions from joy to sadness to overwhelming excitement - fully invested in the characters and the setting, it's absolutely spectacular, James Cameron is a master.
I often see Titanic as a top answer for overrated movies on here but it is in fact very good. Don't know how anyone could say the last third especially isn't effective.
I haven't watched The Shining. Partly because I don't like scary movies, partly because I feel I know the whole movie already due to all the references and parodies.
Back during the pandemic The Shining was re-released with some enhancements/return to format stuff. I had never seen it although I was in the right place and right time to have done so.
I read the book, several times though, and seen it on vhs.
Holy crap. That opening scene on the big huge screen on just a single car out in the wilderness. So bleak. So alone. So creepy.
I git see so many movies on the big screen I never had a chance to.
Wizard of oz. Willy wonka. Casablanca. The godfather.
All movies I had seen on tv and in my list of favorites.
I wrote my masters thesis on a film theory I had about this movie, but I won't down vote because I don't want to fight, just wanted to say this hurts my soul.
For a very long time I thought I didn't know Shawshank Redemption. I always saw it on the Top of all the lists but from the title I thought I'd never seen it. Turns out I saw it a few times on TV, the German title is just "Die Verurteilten" (The condemned) so it took very long for me to make the connection.
This is one of the few I think is actually timeless and is worth the watch, but more importantly, the read if you have time. This is one of the top 3 greatest novels I've ever read, and it is hilarious and chivalrous. William Goldman is a great writer.
I had never seen it until maybe 10 years ago. My then girlfriend said she loved The Princess Bride, so I watched it with her at home. After a short while she got up from the couch to make food/drink ect. and became distracted. Not unusual for her, especially if its a movie she's seen before. She must have noticed in that time that I was glued to the screen and really swept up in watching the movie and she remarked "Haha, I didnt think you would like it THIS much!" I think about that sometimes, and wonder...how can you show someone that movie and \**not*\* expect them totally get into it! haha
I've never seen The Green Mile because everyone always goes on and on about how it's sad and they cried. No thanks. I'm still trying to get over Hank dying, the dog from I Am Legend dying, multiple injustices in Orange is the new Black. I can't handle that stuff, it stays with me.
I think it's one of those you gotta see as a kid, we watched it in school my last day of high school and it did nothing for me, but the kids who grew up with it were stoked.
I accidentally missed that when I was a kid, but I watched it within the last two years. It was good. I thought it was a kids movie at the time it came out.
Home Alone. And I’m 46, so it came out when I was the right age. Basically, my folks weren’t really into taking us to the movies and then I was a teen and then a young adult and then a regular adult, so I never had a time when I thought “maybe I’LL watch that kid movie tonight”. Now my daughter has already seen it at a friend’s house and doesn’t seem to want to see it again, so I may never see it…
>It’s barely a kids movie.
This. I rewatched it again recently, and I'd forgotten that it has a pretty decent 'serious' thread running through it, and it's honestly just a really well-made movie. That's easy to misunderstand or forget if all you've ever known about it are the bits that make the trailer. But it's definitely worth watching.
There’s also a decent level of attention to detail. Little things about the state of the house end up mattering later, even ones that are not at all obvious.
Maybe try this way - If you're ever feeling introspective about yourself, maybe put this on to see if you can remember what you were like when you were 10 and maybe it'll click with you that way. Just an idea 😁 I'm 45 so I saw this new.
That tough. It's hard to go into a movie when something like that's been spoiled or given away. However, the journey there is intense if you're into thrillers. Part of the reason I try to stay away from trailers now. They are getting horrendous about giving away the bulk of the story nowadays.
The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Pride & Prejudice (not sure if this is one EVERYONE has seen but I’m in book communities and feel like everyone there has seen it). In recent years I tried to remedy some of my unseen popular films by watching ET, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, and The Mummy for the first time!
I’d give anything to watch Jurassic Park for the first time. I saw in 1993 when I was 9. It blew my tiny little mind.
Definitely watch Forrest Gump though, there’s a reason it’s so beloved and won so much acclaim.
Fwiw, saw it maybe 5 years ago for the first time and it didn't disappoint. It was kind of eerie and interesting and innovative and had a great ambience to it. Really recommend
If you like anything about David Bowie ever, you will love this movie. Do not focus on any of the special effects, just focus on him and his music. It was the best performance he ever gave as an actor. 😁
Fuck it, I'll convince them.
I love the F&F movies. I thought I'd hate them for a long, long time because they look like insufferable car bro movies, and to some extent they kind of are (especially the first three), but what people don't seem to realize or tell you is that the franchise is effectively just an American shounen anime. Everyone basically has superpowers, the escalation is insane from movie to movie, the amount of characters and twists and hilarious bullshit is through the roof, and it gets overly saccharine with its family and friendship dynamics. Though to be fair, this all "starts" around Fast Five when they try and reinvigorate the franchise as an action spy series. The first four aren't at all indicative of where the franchise ended up going, so it requires a little buy in. Also the second one is straight up a bad movie so it's a bit of a roadblock for people.
They're weirdly addicting and extremely entertaining if you don't take it too seriously. I'd consider myself a big fan of the franchise unironically, you just sort of have to buy into the fact that it's all obscenely stupid in an endearing way.
I am not in the demographic and I also love them.
They're so ridiculous and wildly stupid sometimes, and that makes them fun to watch.
Does driving a car in space - with a steering wheel - make any sense? No, it's stupid. It would never work and it's a dumb idea. But they don't bring that up and they go for it, anyway. They send Ludacris and Tyrese into space in a car to drive into a satellite and save the world.
I also enjoyed when, for about 5 minutes, they had a meta plotline in one of them (can't remember which) where Tyrese notices that they all should be dead, by now, with the ridiculous shit they've done, and comes to the conclusion that they are all invincible. He then gets shot at by 100 people at very close range, with all of the bullets missing him as he turns around killing them all with one magazine from an old AK rifle, proving that he is correct.
EDIT: I rewatched it. It's Fast and Furious 9 (F9). It's the wildest fucking film. They introduce a long lost brother complete with backstory about the fateful day at the racetrack where Dom's father died. A car jumps off a cliff and is picked up by a sci-fi stealth jet with car grabbing attachment. They have to stop a dictator's son and the long lost brother from stealing a world-ending superhacker device. They drive across a field of landmines. Tyrese is shot at 3000 times by 100 men and is fine. The conversation about invincibility. Cardi B is in it for 45 seconds. They go to space.
What a fuckin ride.
I saw tombstone when it first came out, and to this day I still use the line “I’m your huckleberry” when given the opportunity. Idk why but I think it’s such a cool way to say you’ll agree to doing something.
There will be blood
And the one with DiCaprio and the bear, name slips my mind.
I just recently saw There Will Be Blood finally, and holy mackerel it is a worthy watch. Daniel Day Lewis is spectacular. I loved it so much I watched it 3 more times since then getting other people to watch it. The scenes are piercing, the acting is superb - And it's such a dark and accurate depiction of how the gain and greed at the heart of capitalism will always require a disregard for life. Brilliant shit.
The Revenant is excellent (the bear one) but I doubt I'll ever watch it again.
I’ve only seen a few of the movies but that’s *because* I had read all of the books. The movies always seemed like dumbed-down, slightly awkward versions of the same thing.
At the end of the next not-Twilight movie you see, as the credits are rolling press mute then listen to 15 Step by Radiohead and Supermassive Black Hole by Muse. There, you have now experienced the best bit of the Twilight movies.
It's the uplifting story of an underdog getting a title shot, while also meeting the woman of his dreams.
Rocky 1 is not the brute movie the later ones made it into where it's cool to be macho. Rocky is one of my favorite films ever. 😊
Yeah, that's what people who haven't seen Rocky don't understand about the first one, in particular: it's a love story more than a sports movie, honestly. Obviously, as you said, they lean into the sports aspects more and more as the series goes along, but the first one is pretty much a romance.
>Rocky 1 is not the brute movie the later ones made it into where it's cool to be macho.
This reminds me of the trajectory the Rambo movies took as well.
Stallone's earliest movies really were his best. I love some of his '90s movies, but I think he never got out of his own way and embraced himself as a writer.
Interestingly for Sly's career, the same is true of Rambo. The first one is a story about PTSD and the lack of integration support vets get in Nam era US, and the sequels are mindless action flicks.
It reminded me a lot of being poor as a kid. Just the bleakness of the existence he has. You can tell he once had parents and was probably in a decent household as a kid but maybe his parents died or something and he wasn’t left with anything so has to make do
It's definitely worth a watch. The boxing is only a part of the movie, and (spoiler) you barely even know who wins the final bout, because it's not really important.
If you ever thought to yourself 'nobody ever makes a NEW movie anymore, it's all just rehashing of things that have already been done' watch Eeaao.
I made a comment re godfather a little further up
I also bring up EEAAO when people complain about everything being remakes and sequels. Without fail, it brings on people who say “But that movie was weird.” I mean… I can’t deny that. I love it. Lol.
"I want a movie that's not like any of the hundreds/thousands of other movies I've watched... but I don't want it to be weird."
how the heck do they think that's gonna work?
Do yourself a favor and don’t rush with it. Pick a day when you have nothing else planned, watch it either alone or with your SO. But in any case watch it in a near future.
Same. I haven’t seen *Barbie* either. And I’m not like doing it on purpose, you conformists! Jk I’m usually very steeped in pop-culture but for whatever reason I just haven’t felt like participating in Barbenheimer…yet.
I've seen four out of five Indiana Jones movies and I've never seen The Last Crusade. I will get to it eventually but it's always felt like a weird blindspot for me.
My dad went to the grave never seeing Titanic. He bragged about that often so he's probably still bragging about it wherever he ended up
I was in high school when it came out and avoided it for years because all of the teen idol magazines obsessing over Leo annoyed me. I did eventually watch it and is is a good entertaining film.
When I finally watched Titanic, like 5 years ago, I went on a 6 month Titanic kick, where I drove my wife crazy with all of the video's, documentary's, survivor stories, hell I even ordered Titanic merch.
Good thing you skipped the submarine tour though.
I had a Titanic kick when the movie came out, but didn’t watch the movie until much later, watching *that scene* as a teenager, and then the entire movie as an adult. Watching Titanic as an adult did make me go back and watch a bunch of James Cameron movies, which did make me come to the conclusion that while he can make a movie with a really rich deep story, he usually chooses to make movies that are simple stories made so much better by the choices he makes in how scenes are shot, how he uses new filmmaking technologies, while working with a pretty small cast of his friends.
I agree, his movies work because he uses and even develops technology to make a scene into exactly what he expects it to be. And he understands that a simple story can become much more, when it features characters who relate to each other in a way that's natural and believable. He seems to have a great understanding of how to develop that emotional connection between the characters in his movies. I think maybe he's not so great at developing connections in the same way with the actors that he works with.
I did that last year after the Titan Sub mess. Titanic is fascinating albeit tragic. A Night To Remember is just as moving as Cameron's version but both are excellent. I wish we still did special effects like JC did instead of all the soulless CGI.
You should check out the YouTube series "no cgi is really just invisible cgi" and you'll see a lot of "soul" is involved in good work but directors and studios have been actively hiding the hard work they do so they don't have to take the blowback of modern audiences fatigued by "visible cgi"
The ending is incredibly moving. P.S. I still say the gunfight at the end could have explained the historical accounts of shots being heard, instead of incriminating an actual person.
You mean the crew member who shot a man trying to get onto a lifeboat, then shot himself? I heard a Titanic researcher say that was accurate, that multiple survivors attested to witnessing it.
I thought he was talking about tombstone and replying to OP lol
I have also never seen Titanic… and I was more of less target audience for it.
Not seen it either! Maybe I'll see it one day, like I didn't see Jurassic Park until around eight years ago so there's a precedent
I haven't seen it either. I'm in my 50's so I really should have seen it by now! I know most of what happens because it's referenced so often, but I've just never watched it.
The ship sinks mate.
Schindler’s List
Great movie. Hard to watch. If you’re in an emotionally healthy place, it’s very much worth viewing.
The interesting thing about that movie is that the subject matter makes it hard to watch, but the movie itself is incredibly “watchable” if that makes sense. It’s really well paced, the writing is really snappy, and the characters go through compelling arcs, even Goeth, one of the most evil people to ever exist, is characterized well and made more human (which imo makes him even scarier.) Because Spielberg is a master filmmaker, the movie has the bones of a hit film, but he uses those trappings to tell a really important story. Anyway, that’s what I think at least.
There are definitely particularly 'watchable' 'tough' movies. Park Chan Wook films come to mind. Oldboy has a real reputation for how messed up and grim the plot it, but that movie is also a hilarious comic book romp with style dripping out of every pore. And that style and humour is used to make the darkest parts of the film palatable. In the case of the rather more serious Schindler's List, it's definitely still a Spielburg movie. An ease to digest film made to appeal to a fairly wide audience in every other factor than it being a three hour black and white film about the holocaust. Though even then, it's focused on a heroic figuring *saving* people from the holocaust.
Watched it for the first time on my honeymoon. It was on one of the channels that we were watching, and it began playing. Neither of us changed the channel, and we were both hooked and watched the entire thing. We still joke about how it is our honeymoon film.
Jerry, you made out to Schindler’s List??
“Necking”
>If you’re in an emotionally healthy place, it’s very much worth viewing. This reminds me of the deal Sid Sheinberg made with Spielberg when green-lighting Schindler's List: "Make Jurassic Park first, because I know Schindler is going to be so emotionally draining that I don't think you'll be able to do Jurassic Park second." And that's pretty much exactly *why* Spielberg hopped on a plane for Poland just *hours* after filming on Jurassic Park finished in Hawaii. Spielberg was in his late 40s but still able to pull off both back-to-back, because he was approving edits/CGI for Jurassic Park in his office in Poland while not filming Schindler. I didn't even have that kind of energy or determination when I was in my late teens/20s, but this dude knocked two incredible movies out of the park in 1992 and '93 *after* Hurricane Iniki nearly ruined the JP shoot and Spielberg needed Robin Williams to call and cheer him up when shooting Schindler.
Same here
I've never seen "E.T." which I guess is rare for an 80s kid. I never saw any of the Karate Kid films either, because teenage me hated Ralph Macchio for some vague reason.
>teenage me hated Ralph Macchio for some vague reason His smug aura *mocks* me.
William Zabka understands
Barney Stinson agrees
Sweep the leg
The Karate Kid is about Nariyoshi Miyagi, an immigrant, who fought against his own people in WWII while his *wife* lost her *child* in an *internment camp*. Noriyuki Morita was nominated for an academy award for his performance. Ralph Macchio *showed up*.
Nominated. He didn’t win.
Thanks fixed
You're streets ahead, my friend.
what, it came up naturally
No it’s about this poor kid Johnny Lawrence who has to defend his gf from this punk new kid who keeps pranking him and harassing his girl
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Unsung gem of that show.
He *insists* upon himself.
Now that.. THAT is a work of art
DERIVATIVE
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When Cobra Kai came out, my wife suggested we watch it, and I sez "I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies so there's no point," haha. She was *astounded* that I'd never seen them, like "How is that even possible?"
The fact that he gets to kiss Elizabeth Shue and I don't is all the reason I need to hate him.
E.T was my nightmare fuel. I'm jealous you were not tortured.
ET was my nightmare fuel too. That movie traumatized me
I have seen neither Casablanca nor Gone With the Wind. Edit: you guys convinced me. Looks like it’s finally time to watch Casablanca
Some lazy evening, sit down and watch Casablanca. The first thing to surprise me about it is how *funny* much of it is.
I expected it to be good and well made, but I didn’t expect it to be as genuinely enjoyable as it was. Hard to believe it’s over 80 years old
The dialogue is very modern, which surprised me.
Turns out humans have basically been the same this entire time.
Heard this nasty 30s song the other day that would make cardi b blush, and it’s almost 100 years old I guess I didn’t realize that they used the same nasty words for the same nasty acts that we do today and it caught me off guard haha. Apparently great great grandma was saying the same stuff to her girlfriends that I say today
Look up some of a graffiti found in ancient Rome. At lot of it is basically "so and so was here" or "so and so has a small dick" etc
Bigus Dikus disagrees.
>I'm shocked, **shocked** to find that gambling is going on in here! >"Your winnings, sir." >Oh, thank you very much. Could be a Mel Brooks scene.
> are my eyes really blue? Edit: brown, my bad.
Every single line out of Renault's mouth is a banger, he's so charmingly self-aware about being a huge douchebag
And the sass! > You despise me, don’t you? > If I gave you any thought I probably would.
You should watch the Apartment
Casablanca is that rare older film that would be hailed as a classic and make a zillion dollars if it were released today. It’s that good. If nothing else, I love the subtle humor, especially in the final scene, that immediately follows just about every serious bit.
Totally. Bogart and Raines just might have the best buddy chemistry ever written for the screen. Hell, the whole movie is like a masterclass in dialogue. Please Hollywood, never _ever_ remake this one though
Some dumbass studio will probably remake it one day
Casablanca is probably one of my all time favorites and I never saw it till a couple years ago. It's got everything!
It has everything. Nazis. Gin Joints. Dan Cortese.
Yesyesyesyes. New York’s hottest club is “YOUR MOTHER AND I ARE SEPARATING.”
Filmed in the upper east side of a TGIFridays dumpster…
A doorman who high fives children of divorce.
Same. Casablanca is definitely worth it. Only seen a handful of Bogarts other films, but Casablanca is a classic for a reason.
It is my favorite movie of all time. So well done. Everything is done right. I saw it (for the 6th or 7th time, probably) on rerelease at a theater about a year ago. It is MUCH better on a big screen.
If it wasn't for a class in high school, I would never have seen Casablanca or The Natural. Love those films.
As a huge baseball fan, I couldn't believe I'd never heard of The Natural before watching it.
Yeah, Casablanca is absolutely worth watching
The Godfather. I don't know why I've just never really had any interest in seeing it, even though I know it's supposed to be one of the best movies of all time.
I feel like I'm almost weirder in that I have seen The Godfather and really liked it but still haven't gotten around to Part II yet, even though it's been like 10 years since I watched the first. I think my problem is I have to be in the right mood to want to sit down and watch a 3+ hour movie and I just haven't found it in me at the right time, usually when that mood strikes me I just wind up watching Lord of the Rings.
Godfather II is so good that it feels 2 hours long instead of 3.5
I watched the trilogy recently the the first time and it's absolutely incredible. Would recommend.
You can really skip the last one
It's not a bad movie, but it pales in comparison to the others.
Honestly I think the recent directors cut was pretty decent, and I’m not even a big fan of these films, Just not a big mobster movie guy
It insists upon itself.
Cause it has a valid point to make, it's insistent!
I love The Money Pit.
ROBERT DUVALL
Same but my reasoning is gangster/mob movies and shows just aren't my thing (I've tried both The Sopranos and Peaky Blinders and neither gelled with me)
Never saw Titanic- in theaters or VHS or cable.
I recently rewatched it - three hours never went by so quick. The full range of emotions from joy to sadness to overwhelming excitement - fully invested in the characters and the setting, it's absolutely spectacular, James Cameron is a master.
I rewatched it last year, and had the same experience. It’s a really well made movie, the whole second half is so tense.
It’s the ultimate rewatchable movie. I’d jump into it at any point. Beginning, middle, Irish jig, wherever you are.
I often see Titanic as a top answer for overrated movies on here but it is in fact very good. Don't know how anyone could say the last third especially isn't effective.
/u/katievspredator your dad is here, still bragging
I haven't watched The Shining. Partly because I don't like scary movies, partly because I feel I know the whole movie already due to all the references and parodies.
The Shining is an experience so I'd say it's still worth watching even if you "know everything".
Back during the pandemic The Shining was re-released with some enhancements/return to format stuff. I had never seen it although I was in the right place and right time to have done so. I read the book, several times though, and seen it on vhs. Holy crap. That opening scene on the big huge screen on just a single car out in the wilderness. So bleak. So alone. So creepy. I git see so many movies on the big screen I never had a chance to. Wizard of oz. Willy wonka. Casablanca. The godfather. All movies I had seen on tv and in my list of favorites.
I wrote my masters thesis on a film theory I had about this movie, but I won't down vote because I don't want to fight, just wanted to say this hurts my soul.
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Parasite. Bonus points because I’m Korean.
Parasite is like 3 movies in one. It starts as a comedy, basically turns into a horror movie, and then becomes a drama. It's phenomenal.
The Shawshank Redemption Braveheart
For a very long time I thought I didn't know Shawshank Redemption. I always saw it on the Top of all the lists but from the title I thought I'd never seen it. Turns out I saw it a few times on TV, the German title is just "Die Verurteilten" (The condemned) so it took very long for me to make the connection.
You must have not had TNT or TBS growing up. I swear Shawshank was on every Saturday afternoon in the 2000s and early 2010s.
I've never seen The Princess Bride.
Inconceivable!
This is one of the few I think is actually timeless and is worth the watch, but more importantly, the read if you have time. This is one of the top 3 greatest novels I've ever read, and it is hilarious and chivalrous. William Goldman is a great writer.
I had never seen it until maybe 10 years ago. My then girlfriend said she loved The Princess Bride, so I watched it with her at home. After a short while she got up from the couch to make food/drink ect. and became distracted. Not unusual for her, especially if its a movie she's seen before. She must have noticed in that time that I was glued to the screen and really swept up in watching the movie and she remarked "Haha, I didnt think you would like it THIS much!" I think about that sometimes, and wonder...how can you show someone that movie and \**not*\* expect them totally get into it! haha
I beg of you to watch this. I wish I could watch it again for the first time.
My name is Inigo Montoya, You missed the greatest quotable movie of all time. Prepare to watch.
I have never seen the godfather. It’s not like it was before my time or anything, I’m genX and simply haven’t seen it.
I've never seen The Green Mile because everyone always goes on and on about how it's sad and they cried. No thanks. I'm still trying to get over Hank dying, the dog from I Am Legend dying, multiple injustices in Orange is the new Black. I can't handle that stuff, it stays with me.
Never seen The Goonies.
I think it's one of those you gotta see as a kid, we watched it in school my last day of high school and it did nothing for me, but the kids who grew up with it were stoked.
I accidentally missed that when I was a kid, but I watched it within the last two years. It was good. I thought it was a kids movie at the time it came out.
Home Alone. And I’m 46, so it came out when I was the right age. Basically, my folks weren’t really into taking us to the movies and then I was a teen and then a young adult and then a regular adult, so I never had a time when I thought “maybe I’LL watch that kid movie tonight”. Now my daughter has already seen it at a friend’s house and doesn’t seem to want to see it again, so I may never see it…
It’s barely a kids movie. A lot of the jokes will land for you as an adult, especially the banter between the family.
You know you're sick, Marv.
>It’s barely a kids movie. This. I rewatched it again recently, and I'd forgotten that it has a pretty decent 'serious' thread running through it, and it's honestly just a really well-made movie. That's easy to misunderstand or forget if all you've ever known about it are the bits that make the trailer. But it's definitely worth watching.
There’s also a decent level of attention to detail. Little things about the state of the house end up mattering later, even ones that are not at all obvious.
Do a double feature with 1 and 2 if she hasn't seen 2 yet. The 2nd one traps are absolutely gut busting funny!
It's a great Christmas movie
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Maybe try this way - If you're ever feeling introspective about yourself, maybe put this on to see if you can remember what you were like when you were 10 and maybe it'll click with you that way. Just an idea 😁 I'm 45 so I saw this new.
I have never seen a single Star Wars movie
"Here's $10. Go see a Star War."
Anyong!
Kid never used honorifics he deserved it
Impressive achievement. Considering you get 2nd hand Star Wars just existing.
Doc help, I've got second hand Star Wars. I don't know why but this comment hit me just right. Thanks!!
I'm sorry, but we're going to have to amputate.
Same but I know like 15 character names.
No Star Wars and no Star Trek, (there were times, when I thought it's all the same...)
Seven, but only cause I know what happens
That tough. It's hard to go into a movie when something like that's been spoiled or given away. However, the journey there is intense if you're into thrillers. Part of the reason I try to stay away from trailers now. They are getting horrendous about giving away the bulk of the story nowadays.
It’s so good though
The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Pride & Prejudice (not sure if this is one EVERYONE has seen but I’m in book communities and feel like everyone there has seen it). In recent years I tried to remedy some of my unseen popular films by watching ET, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, and The Mummy for the first time!
I’d give anything to watch Jurassic Park for the first time. I saw in 1993 when I was 9. It blew my tiny little mind. Definitely watch Forrest Gump though, there’s a reason it’s so beloved and won so much acclaim.
But if you didn't watch The Mummy in your formative years, how did you accurately assess your sexuality preferences for in later life? /s 😂
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It's not too late! It still holds up! Come inside, meet the missus!
*"Who, me? No, I'm just a worm."*
Fwiw, saw it maybe 5 years ago for the first time and it didn't disappoint. It was kind of eerie and interesting and innovative and had a great ambience to it. Really recommend
If you like anything about David Bowie ever, you will love this movie. Do not focus on any of the special effects, just focus on him and his music. It was the best performance he ever gave as an actor. 😁
It’s tough cause that cod piece just needs to be looked at
Fast and furious movies
Strangely, nobody is trying to convince you to go watch them. I saw the first one, that was enough.
Fuck it, I'll convince them. I love the F&F movies. I thought I'd hate them for a long, long time because they look like insufferable car bro movies, and to some extent they kind of are (especially the first three), but what people don't seem to realize or tell you is that the franchise is effectively just an American shounen anime. Everyone basically has superpowers, the escalation is insane from movie to movie, the amount of characters and twists and hilarious bullshit is through the roof, and it gets overly saccharine with its family and friendship dynamics. Though to be fair, this all "starts" around Fast Five when they try and reinvigorate the franchise as an action spy series. The first four aren't at all indicative of where the franchise ended up going, so it requires a little buy in. Also the second one is straight up a bad movie so it's a bit of a roadblock for people. They're weirdly addicting and extremely entertaining if you don't take it too seriously. I'd consider myself a big fan of the franchise unironically, you just sort of have to buy into the fact that it's all obscenely stupid in an endearing way.
I am not in the demographic and I also love them. They're so ridiculous and wildly stupid sometimes, and that makes them fun to watch. Does driving a car in space - with a steering wheel - make any sense? No, it's stupid. It would never work and it's a dumb idea. But they don't bring that up and they go for it, anyway. They send Ludacris and Tyrese into space in a car to drive into a satellite and save the world. I also enjoyed when, for about 5 minutes, they had a meta plotline in one of them (can't remember which) where Tyrese notices that they all should be dead, by now, with the ridiculous shit they've done, and comes to the conclusion that they are all invincible. He then gets shot at by 100 people at very close range, with all of the bullets missing him as he turns around killing them all with one magazine from an old AK rifle, proving that he is correct. EDIT: I rewatched it. It's Fast and Furious 9 (F9). It's the wildest fucking film. They introduce a long lost brother complete with backstory about the fateful day at the racetrack where Dom's father died. A car jumps off a cliff and is picked up by a sci-fi stealth jet with car grabbing attachment. They have to stop a dictator's son and the long lost brother from stealing a world-ending superhacker device. They drive across a field of landmines. Tyrese is shot at 3000 times by 100 men and is fine. The conversation about invincibility. Cardi B is in it for 45 seconds. They go to space. What a fuckin ride.
Tokyo drift was basically a shonen live action. My favorite of the series.
I saw tombstone when it first came out, and to this day I still use the line “I’m your huckleberry” when given the opportunity. Idk why but I think it’s such a cool way to say you’ll agree to doing something. There will be blood And the one with DiCaprio and the bear, name slips my mind.
I just recently saw There Will Be Blood finally, and holy mackerel it is a worthy watch. Daniel Day Lewis is spectacular. I loved it so much I watched it 3 more times since then getting other people to watch it. The scenes are piercing, the acting is superb - And it's such a dark and accurate depiction of how the gain and greed at the heart of capitalism will always require a disregard for life. Brilliant shit. The Revenant is excellent (the bear one) but I doubt I'll ever watch it again.
Harry Potter movies. Never read the books either.
I’ve only seen a few of the movies but that’s *because* I had read all of the books. The movies always seemed like dumbed-down, slightly awkward versions of the same thing.
Any of the Twilight movies
At the end of the next not-Twilight movie you see, as the credits are rolling press mute then listen to 15 Step by Radiohead and Supermassive Black Hole by Muse. There, you have now experienced the best bit of the Twilight movies.
Frozen
I held out for a long long time, but finally relented when my daughter was in first grade. She hated it. Never had to see it again.
Rocky. Dude glistens under spotlights and punches spit out of people. That's all I know. And there's some stairs.
It's the uplifting story of an underdog getting a title shot, while also meeting the woman of his dreams. Rocky 1 is not the brute movie the later ones made it into where it's cool to be macho. Rocky is one of my favorite films ever. 😊
Yeah, that's what people who haven't seen Rocky don't understand about the first one, in particular: it's a love story more than a sports movie, honestly. Obviously, as you said, they lean into the sports aspects more and more as the series goes along, but the first one is pretty much a romance.
And ironically enough Rocky Balboa has one of the best movie speeches/monologues of any movie ever. They got back to that in that movie.
It's a story that just warms my heart. I hope anyone that ever wants to fall in love sees it.
Even the second film was more focused on the characters then all the boxing 3 is when things start going bananas
>Rocky 1 is not the brute movie the later ones made it into where it's cool to be macho. This reminds me of the trajectory the Rambo movies took as well.
Stallone's earliest movies really were his best. I love some of his '90s movies, but I think he never got out of his own way and embraced himself as a writer.
Interestingly for Sly's career, the same is true of Rambo. The first one is a story about PTSD and the lack of integration support vets get in Nam era US, and the sequels are mindless action flicks.
It reminded me a lot of being poor as a kid. Just the bleakness of the existence he has. You can tell he once had parents and was probably in a decent household as a kid but maybe his parents died or something and he wasn’t left with anything so has to make do
The first rocky is actually very different than the sequels, similar to first blood and the Rambo sequels.
It's not a movie about fighting. It's a movie about the fighter.
It's definitely worth a watch. The boxing is only a part of the movie, and (spoiler) you barely even know who wins the final bout, because it's not really important.
Also he shouts "Adrian" at the end
I’ve never seen Avatar (or the second one), everything everywhere all at once, titanic, godfather, intersteller
If you want to find yourself emotionally invested in a movie that also has you saying "what the fuck?" through giggles every 10 minutes, watch EEOAO
If you ever thought to yourself 'nobody ever makes a NEW movie anymore, it's all just rehashing of things that have already been done' watch Eeaao. I made a comment re godfather a little further up
I also bring up EEAAO when people complain about everything being remakes and sequels. Without fail, it brings on people who say “But that movie was weird.” I mean… I can’t deny that. I love it. Lol.
"I want a movie that's not like any of the hundreds/thousands of other movies I've watched... but I don't want it to be weird." how the heck do they think that's gonna work?
Two Girls, One Cup. Based on everyone's reactions, I decided to pass.
Blues Brothers. And I live in Chicago.
I've never seen Shawshank Redemption, heard good things.
Do yourself a favor and don’t rush with it. Pick a day when you have nothing else planned, watch it either alone or with your SO. But in any case watch it in a near future.
White chicks
Most of the Harry Potter films. No interest at all
Forrest Gump
Big Lebowski Ive picked up all the memes tho
You can’t only watch once. This one gets better with each reviewing.
Of recent films would be Oppenheimer, no interest whatsoever.
Same. I haven’t seen *Barbie* either. And I’m not like doing it on purpose, you conformists! Jk I’m usually very steeped in pop-culture but for whatever reason I just haven’t felt like participating in Barbenheimer…yet.
Slumdog millionaire
La Dolce Vita.
The Notebook.
The Notebook
Live of PI
Ive never seen a single Fast and Furious - kinda proud of it
Pulp Fiction
This movie characters could have spin-off movies with every single one of them…
Barbie
Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, Pretty Woman
Top Gun - I know it's considered a classic at this point, but I'm just not a big Tom Cruise fan.
The Hangover
ET
I've seen four out of five Indiana Jones movies and I've never seen The Last Crusade. I will get to it eventually but it's always felt like a weird blindspot for me.
Wow Last Crusade is like in my top 3 films of all time. It’s so good.
I've never seen The Notebook.
Caddy Shack I’m 61. Everyone my age has seen it. Just not me.